Verlag:
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa.
"Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity,...
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"Explores the art of John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gynecology, literature, and visual culture. Argues that the artist was elaborating both a period poetics of homosexuality and a new sense of subjectivity, anticipating certain aspects of artistic modernism"--Provided by publisher
Introduction. The birds and the bees -- La vie en rose -- Lascivious digitation, or The importance of manual stimulation to the invert artist -- Dr. Octogynecologist -- Portrait of the artist as a young ladybird -- The sting -- Conclusion. Leaf taking.
